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====SCHOOLS==== |
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*[[California Institute of technology]] |
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*[[Massachusets Institute of Technology]] |
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*[[Harvard University]] |
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*[[Princeton University]] |
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*[[University of California, Berkeley]] |
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*[[University of Notre Dame]] |
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*[[University of Pennsylvania]] |
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*[[University of Virginia]] |
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*[[University of Wisconsin, Madison]] |
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*[[Washington University]] |
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*[[University of Chicago]] |
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*[[Carnegie Mellon University]] |
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*[[Texas A&M University]] |
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*[[Boston University]] |
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*[[John Hopkins University]] |
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*[[Boston College]] |
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*[[Bowling Green State University]] |
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*[[Catholic University of America]] |
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*[[Columbia University]] |
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*[[Claremont McKenna College]] |
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*[[George Mason University]] |
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*[[Georgetown University]] |
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*[[kenyon College]] |
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*[[Loyola Marymount University]] |
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*[[Michigan State University]] |
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*[[New York University]] |
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===Local charities=== |
===Local charities=== |
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*[[Milwaukee Youth Symphony Orchestra]] |
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*[[Madison Center for Educational Affairs]] |
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=== Public officials === |
=== Public officials === |
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*[[Jeane J. Kirkpatrick]] |
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*[[Jack Kemp]] |
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*[[William J. Bennett]] |
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=== Jurists === |
=== Jurists === |
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*[[Robert H. Bork]] |
*[[Robert H. Bork]] |
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*[[Antonin Scalia]] |
*[[Antonin Scalia]] |
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== External links == |
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*[http://www.bradleyfdn.org The Bradley Foundation] -- Official website |
*[http://www.bradleyfdn.org The Bradley Foundation] -- Official website |
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*[http://www.mediatransparency.org/funders/bradley_foundation.htm The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation] -- An analysis and critique by Phil Wilayto |
*[http://www.mediatransparency.org/funders/bradley_foundation.htm The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation] -- An analysis and critique by Phil Wilayto |
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Revision as of 06:11, 18 December 2004
The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, is a large and influential right-wing think tank with about half a billion US dollars in assets. According to The Bradley Foundation 1998 Annual Report, it was giving away more than $30 million per year. The Foundation has financed efforts to support welfare reform, to promote school vouchers, to deregulate business, and to privatize government services.
Criticism
Phil Wilayto, a writer for the communist Workers World Party, and Media Transparency, a left wing website that tracks the funding of right wing politics, writes:
- The overall objective of the Bradley Foundation, however, is to return the U.S. -- and the world -- to the days before governments began to regulate Big Business, before corporations were forced to make concessions to an organized labor force. In other words, laissez-faire capitalism: capitalism with the gloves off.
Wilayto also published a 140-page "investigative report" on the Bradley Foundation, The Feeding Trough, on behalf of the "A Job is a Right Campaign" in Milwaukee. The report attacks the Bradley Foundation for allegedly commissioning the studies that supported the Welfare Reform legislation in Wisconsin. Wiyalto has stated that the Wisconsin welfare reform is a draconian program that has increased the misery of the poor by supplying business with forced labor at wages inadequate to maintain a reasonable standard of living while bringing massive profits to private business and non-profit agencies. He has accused the Bradley Foundation of using the black community of Milwaukee as a laboratory to increase profits.
Past and present grantees
National organizations
- American Enterprise Institute
- Heritage Foundation
- Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace
- Potomac Foundation
- Council for the Spanish Speaking
- Child Abuse Prevention Fund
- Institute for Justice
- Children First America
- Black Alliance for Educational Options
- Children First America
- Foundation for Individual Rights in Education
- Heartland Institute
- Center for Education Reform
- Institute for Educational Advancement
- Corporation for National and Community Service
- Thomas B. Fordham Institute
- Foundation for Education Reform and Accountability
Local charities
- Association of Midwest Museums
- Epilepsy Association of Southwest Wisconsin
- Child Abuse Prevention Fund
- Hunger Task Force of Milwaukee
- Milwaukee Public Library Foundation
- Milwaukee Public Museum
- Wisconsin Historical Foundation
- Milwaukee Youth Symphony Orchestra
- Madison Center for Educational Affairs
Public officials
Jurists
External links
- The Bradley Foundation -- Official website
- The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation -- An analysis and critique by Phil Wilayto
- The Feeding Trough: The Bradley Foundation, "The Bell Curve" and the Real Story Behind W-2, Wisconsin's National Model for Welfare Reform. -- Investigative report by Phil Wilayto
- Response from Michael Joyce, foundation president, to The Feeding Trough
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SCHOOLS